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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger eagerness to play, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For nearly all of the citizens living on the abysmal nearby money, there are two dominant styles of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up till recently, there was a very large vacationing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till conditions get better is basically unknown.